theoriginal_djwood's Reviews (40)

Bury Your Gays

Chuck Tingle

4.0

adventurous dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

How to Solve Your Own Murder

Kristen Perrin

4.25

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The two timelines shared two women researching the exact same information. After 200 pages I stopped caring about how it would end nor did I care about either MC. I loathe wasting my time on garbage stories. Inquiry Into Love and Death was so good so I am angrily disappointed with this one.

An Inquiry Into Love and Death

Simone St. James

4.0

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

What a lovely read! A thriller/romance disguised as a ghost story. I expected the ghost stories to be at the forefront of the novel but I was delighted to discover that I don’t mind a little romance in my mystery readings!

Spoiler: My greatest concern was that Jillian and Drew to end up together. And they did!

Hidden Pictures

Jason Rekulak

5.0

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Take what you think you know about this book and throw it out the window. Also, prep yourself for literal jump scares!

Daisy Darker

Alice Feeney

DID NOT FINISH: 19%

I figured out that Daisy was dead around page 30ish and found it insulting that Feeney thought this twist was clever considering the reveal doesn’t drop till page 304 (I skipped ahead.) If I figured it out so early in the book (and I’m not a genius) I’m sure others did as well.